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larcher
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Borneo leopard, discovered in 2010
#266910 - 24/06/15 05:59 AM

A 80 pound cat discovered in 2010. Neofelis diardi
No hurry, perhaps on the hunting list of your grand-grand-grand children????????

Borneo leopard

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Rockdoc
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Re: Borneo leopard, discovered in 2010 [Re: larcher]
#267191 - 30/06/15 06:39 PM

Thank you Larcher.

Funny how they can "discover" a new species of Leopard in 2007.

In 2010 I saw a black one, similar size to this, maybe a little bigger, near the central Kalimantan border in East Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo). The locals call them panther or simply cat.

I have travelled quite a bit there and Central Borneo. Dyaks know all about these. Townsfolk not so much!

I saw it on a logging trail in the mountains, at 10am. Never even thought to lift my camera off my lap and take a photograph.

I had stayed in the house of one of our Dyak guides the night before. Lots of Rusa Deer antlers on the walls!

Cheers,

Chris

Edited by Rockdoc (30/06/15 06:41 PM)

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Re: Borneo leopard, discovered in 2010 [Re: Rockdoc]
#267192 - 30/06/15 07:21 PM

"discovered" is an exaggeration, as the Sunda Clouded Leopard was first described and classified by Cuvier in 1823. But until 2006 it was thought to be merely a subspecies of the Asian Clouded Leopard, neofelis nebulosa, and called neofelis nebulosa diardi. In 2006, by DNA and other tests, it was merely discovered that it is a different species of his own. So it was reclassified from a subspecies to the species neofelis diardi. The Sunda Clouded Leopard lives not only in Borneo, but in Sumatra too.

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Re: Borneo leopard, discovered in 2010 [Re: kuduae]
#267219 - 01/07/15 02:48 AM

Is the cat in the video an immature individual or is the species normally smaller? Thanks.

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Re: Borneo leopard, discovered in 2010 [Re: NitroX]
#267266 - 02/07/15 01:49 AM

The thick legs & large feet seem to indicate an immature animal.

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larcher
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Re: Borneo leopard, discovered in 2010 [Re: DarylS]
#267348 - 04/07/15 04:55 AM

Rockdoc

You plainly expose it, an animal that You saw as umpteenth people do. And abracadabra a passing foreigner discovers it.

What's rejoicing is that when greenies turn us mad with disapperaing species, new ones emerge.

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